Diccionario Escolar Etimologico [School & Library Binding]

Victor Garcia Hoz (Author)

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Text: Spanish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• School & Library Binding: 752 pages
• Publisher: Magisterio Espaol (January 1, 1997)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8426539300
• ISBN-13: 978-8426539304
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,554,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A fraud in the shape of a book!, November 5, 2003

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This review is from: Diccionario Escolar Etimologico (School & Library Binding)

This book is not a scholar's tool, and this review awards one star because Amazon does not give you the choice of awarding none. A dictionary with the word "etimológico" in its title ought to give the history of a word, especially if the word's source or root is a word from a different language, yet this book does that for only a very few words. The rare 1% (my humble estimate) of words that are graced with an asterisk have a footnote dedicated to them, and the footnotes are very chatty and uninformative. For example, the word "queso" is of Germanic origin, but there appears nothing more than "food made from milk"! The other 99% of words have nothing more than definitions without any mention of their foreign root. For the many words with Arabic roots, there is mostly no mention of their origin. In its defense, I must say that the book does have five pages of computer terms or "informática", and it does attribute some of them to English. Burning your dollar bills is preferable to wasting them on this book.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars queso is not germanic, July 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Diccionario Escolar Etimologico (School & Library Binding)

Mmm , the origin of spanish word "queso" ; italian càcio , portuguese queijo , spanish queso , german käse derives from latin "Caseum"

caseum > queso

baseum > beso

queso is not germanic (as commonly supposed)

DENTRO DE 5 DÍAS i give to you more exemples why queso is not germanic

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madre mia cuanto tontolava hay en la red dios mio incultos , burros...